Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Cookie Sale and Caribbean Vegan Giveaway!

Hey y'all. No food photos tonight. On the last night of Vegan Mofo, I want to tell y'all about some awesome discounts on magical vegan cookies. And then we're givin' away a copy of Taymer Mason's fabulous Caribbean Vegan cookbook.

First the cookies — Last year, I was lucky enough to receive a sample pack of some giant, all-natural vegan Intention Cookies by Bountiful Vegan. Not only are these cookies delicious, they're also said to possess a little mojo magic. Each cookie is supposed to bring about positive qualities — love, determination, success, courage, happiness, or prosperity — as you eat it. I don't know about y'all, but I totally believe in magic and the power of positive thinking. But I'm a little airy-fairy sometimes....

I received an e-mail from Bountiful Vegan a few days ago to let me know that they've eliminated two flavors from their line, but they've added four more — Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter, Oatmeal Raisin, and Chocolate Chip. Those are in addition to the flavors they kept — Chocolate Chocolate Chip and Chocolate Chip Orange. Each cookie is named for the quality it's supposed to impart in you as you eat it. For example, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip is "Happiness." Um, duh. I would totally get happy with a PB Chip cookie! See, totally magic.

They're also offering holiday gift baskets with 12 Intention Cookies, a choice of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate (they make the hot chocolate mix themselves!), and a personalized card. Check out the baskets here.

Anyway, Bountiful Vegan is offering a very special deal to Vegan Crunk readers! They're extending their Cyber Monday sale of 30 percent off all gift items through Wednesday, Dec. 1st at midnight. All you have to do is email info@bountifulvegan.com and ask for the "Cyber Monday Extension."

Now for the Caribbean Vegan giveaway! Yesterday, I reviewed Taymer Mason's newly-released cookbook filled with 125 recipes for native foods of Barbados, Saint Lucia, Trinidad, Tobago, Jamaica, Grenada, the French West Indies, and Guyana.In case you missed the review, you can read it here. Or you can just drool over the photo of Taymer's Hearts of Palm & Tofu Scramble from Caribbean Vegan.

One lucky commenter will win a copy of Taymer's book. Just leave a comment about your favorite exotic dish. Doesn't have to be Caribbean since I'm sure many of you (like me until I got this book) haven't tried that cuisine yet.

For an extra chance to win, tweet about the giveaway and leave an additional comment letting me know you did. For an extra, extra chance, link back to the contest from Facebook and leave yet another comment to let me know. And finally, for a fourth chance, link back to this contest on your blog (if you have one), and leave yet another comment to fill me in. That's four chances to win!

If you don't have a Blogger account with a listed email, please leave your email address so I can contact you if you win. Good luck! I'll randomly select one winner on Sunday night (Dec. 5th).

109 comments:

I have no idea what exotic is because I eat Indian, Korean and other ethnic food all the time. I do love my Kimchee however. I search for the recipe similar to the one at my favorite eatery Charlie Kang's in East Lansing MI but most I find are for the cabbage style. Someday I will find it.

How do you get all these awesome sample packs? You're living the vegan dream, lady. No wonder you believe in magic. :)

In southern China, street vendors sell a fruit called durian, that smells kind of like, um, rotting garbage, from across the street. But the taste is interesting, bitter and sweet. They make mooncake out of it, which can easily be vegan, and often is, depending on the recipe.

Anyway, that's maybe the most exotic thing I can think of right now. I don't really want the cookbook, but your blog is awesome.

Also, my favorite exotic food is anything Ethiopian. I have yet to attempt to make anything but there is a Ethiopian restaurant here in San Diego that is definitely a favorite of my boyfriend and I. :]]

Heh, I love exotic foods, my other half refers to me as 'The Gastronaught'!It probably doesn't sound very exotic, but I'd love to make my own saurkraut (I have a thing for lactic acid fermentation, and love stuff like saurkraut & kimchi). hell, I love fermentation in general, being horribly addicted to sourdough & working in a brewery!

Well, first of all, I wanted to say congrats on Vegan Mofo. I haven't had time to comment but have enjoyed your blog as one of my favorites.

Second thanks too, for having my blog address linked on yours - you send more traffic my way than almost any other site, and as a little, small-time, non-cookbook-writing-basic blogger, I appreciate it a lot!!

Oh, and third, I'd like to be entered in the contest since I'm here! Anything sounds exotic after my month of gravies, let me tell you!

My fiance is from Jamaica and he is always introducing me to new flavor combinations. Anything he does to his meat he'll do the same to some tofu for me. My favorite exotic dish to eat and make is jamaican jerk tofu mmm! With a little rice on the side and some sweet plantains!

"Exotic" is such a relative term...! I love pretty much all types of non-American food, but what's coming to mind right now is this jerk tofu dish I had at a little Jamaican restaurant a few months back. So spicy and delicious.

Ummm...I am not sure if any of the foods I eat qualify as exotic, but I have taken a real liking to falafel lately. I make a delish vegan wrap with falafel, avocado, hummus, cucumbers, tomatoes, olives and sprouts.

Suppose Chinese counts as exotic...so my favourite exotic dish is dan dan noodles using tempeh (from Vegan on the Cheap by Robin Robertson) - Who can pass up the combo of tahini, peanut butter, tempeh and noodles?

I love love love Kik Alicha (Ethiopian split yellow peas with onion and ginger... so easy to make!). I also often frequent the closest Indian grocery store to me and pick up n ENORMOUS vegan samosa for 99 cents. Yuuum.

I love Caribbean food--I hope there are some Ital (vegan Rastafari) recipes in there!

hmm, favorite exotic dish... I don't think of it as that "exotic" but it's not American, so I'll say sweet-and-sour red cabbage, which an old German lady taught me how to cook years ago. It's delicious :)

I would love to win this book, i've been checking out Taymer's blog for a while now and drooling over all the awsome food porn on her blog. My family is from the carribean and i remember that every year around Christmas time my mom would make a drink called sorrel. It basically hibiscus leaves boiled in water, ginger, and allspice and rum can be added, its always drunk cold. So thats my favorite exotic food item. Congrats to Taymer on the book and congrats to the lucky winner.

My mother's side of the family is Jamaican and I've always loved my grandma's ackee fritters. and her rice and peas. and her gungo peas stew! She's recently veganized a lot of her family recipes for me and I can't thank her enough!

In the way of Caribbean food, I definitely love jerk seitan or tofu and rice and peas. There's a Jamaican restaurant in my old hometown that makes the most amazing Jamaican vegan food, and now I have a hankering for it!

My favorite is one of my improvised Jamaican recipes - curried ackee puffs with a side of callaloo. To me it's not exotic, because I grew up there, but the fact that it's ingredients from home used in a vegan way is a nice twist!

It's hard to say what's "exotic" when we have dishes from around the world available just blocks away. I'm a big fan of Indian and Ethiopian foods, so either Aloo Palak or Gomen. Both are YUMM and eaten with bread - does it get any better than that?!??!!

My favorite exotic dish is attieke, a dish that's very popular in Ivory Coast. We make it vegan by replacing the meat with tofu cooked in peanut sauce... and the best part is that we eat it with our hands!

I LOVE jerk tofu. I feel like Im just following the crowd though, it seems like on of the most popular answers! So I also love heluski (spelling?). I used to eat it when I wasnt vegan but would LOVE to veganize the recipe. Its basically dumplings that are boiled then pan fried in butter with onions. (Maybe use egg replacer in the dumplings, EB, and its VEGAN!)

At the moment, chana masala is my favorite. I can't get enough! When it comes to food, I have an addictive personality, so when I find something that I really like, I eat it until I find something new again :).

I love aloo gobi and pretty much anything Indian (vegan, of course). When I was in college there was a vegetarian Indian place nearby that had a huge vegan selection...I ate there more than I care to admit! Love your blog, can't wait for your cookbook! sante.erica@gmail.com

I'm Bahamian and so I've been missing a lot of those Carribean flavors since switching to a vegan diet, but one of my favourites is peas soup and dumplings with Bahamian sweet potatoes, cassava, and plantains -umm so good.

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I'm a 9-year vegan, 19-year vegetarian from the Mid-South, not too far from the muddy banks of the Mississippi River. And that means cornbread, butter beans, and collard greens.
These days, I live in Memphis. Check out my cookbook — Cookin' Crunk. It's filled with yummilicious veganized soul food and country classics.